Person:Asa Olmstead (4)

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Name[1] Asa Olmstead
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 25 May 1756 Fairfield, Connecticut, United StatesChestnut Hill
Marriage 5 Dec 1787 Connecticutto Elizabeth Stuart
Residence[1][2] Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, United StatesBelden Hill
Death[2] 21 Apr 1839 New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Selleck, Charles M. (Charles Melbourne). Norwalk. (Norwalk, Connecticut: C.M. Selleck, 1896)
    445.

    Asa Olmstead was son of David, who was son of John and Mary (Small) Olmstead. ... Asa Olmstead lived on Belden Hill. Himself and wife were born and brought up on Chestnut Hill, his father owning the present Gorham property on that hill, and her father where the Finch Brothers of 1896 reside. ...

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 4082, in Olmsted, Henry King (1824-1896), and George Kemp Ward (1848-1937). Genealogy of the Olmsted Family in America: Embracing the Descendants of James and Richard Olmstead and Covering a Period of Nearly Three Centuries, 1632-1912. (New York: A. T. DeLaMare, 1912)
    197, 205.

    (4082) ASA OLMSTED, Belden's Hill, Norwalk, Conn. b. May 25, 1756. d. Apr. 21, 1839; m. Dec. 5, 1787, Elizabeth Stuart ...

    He d. in New Canaan, Conn. He was a shoemaker. "Learned the trade with David Bolt, in Norwalk. He had a testament book, 'Young Man's Companion,' and 'James' Night Thoughts' laid near his bench." — From an old letter, E. W. O.